Represented by Ochi Gallery, Los Angeles
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
Belly of a Glacier, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (upcoming)
Belly of a Glacier, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA (upcoming)
2023
Souvenir, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
Belly of a Glacier (Chapter 1), Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst, MA
2021
RED PATIENCE, Bass & Rainer, San Francisco, CA
Playing Submarine, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2020
The Rebel Body, Haus N, Athens, Greece Summer Fugue, O Project Space, Los Angeles, CA
2019
The Rebel Body, Adjunct Position, Los Angeles, CA
Souvenir, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Magic Hour (Epitaph for Family), Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
Distance In/Formation, Pitzer Gallery, Claremont, CA
2016
Night Again Again, Berkeley Museum of Art, Berkeley, CA
Field Variations, South of Sunset, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Epitaph for Family, Human Resources Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
We Love Our Parents, We Fear Snakes, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS + SCREENINGS + PUBLIC ART
2024
Getty Pacific Standard Time (PST), Oceanside Museum of Art (upcoming)
2023
Images of Time: A Pictorial History of Temporality, Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland (upcoming)
Kenophombic Pantomimes, Below Grand, New York, NY
Shapeshifters, POUSH, Paris, France
After the End, NADA, New York, NY
2022
Even a Cat Can Look at the Queen, Mrs. Gallery, Queens, NY
Neon Ruins, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA
The Wave, The New Museum Incubator Inc., Online
I tilted over until it becomes horizon, String Room Gallery, Aurora, NY
A.I.R. CURRENTS: Identity Politics, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Queer Biennial and Coaxial Arts Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Our Envisioned Future, Human Resources Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Expanded Field, Ochi Aux, Los Angeles, CA
Swimmer, Petty Cash, New York, NY
Andrea, A Portrait, Orlando and The Rebel Body, TBA-21 Ocean Space, Venice, Italy
Summer Fugue, Second Wave Online Video Screenings, Online
Public Billboard Commission, 14x 48 Public Art Projects, New York, NY
2020
The Rebel Body, Sharjah Film Platform, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, IKOB, Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Eupen, Belgium, Swiss International Film Festival (SIFF), Aubonne, Switzerland, Haus N, Athens, Greece, USC, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Fugue, New York Film Academy, Burbank, CA
Archive Machines, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, CA
2019
The Rebel Body, The American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon Offal, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Beyond the Pale, Cypress College Gallery, Cypress, CA Mail Art, Chan Gallery, Pomona, CA
2018
To Have Or To Be, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Ain’t I A Womxn?, Dirty Looks with Freeways, Los Angeles State Historic Park, Los Angeles, CA
2017
break down, re source, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, CA Small Works for Big Change, Participant Inc., New York, NY
Animating the Archives, Avenue 50 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA A Matter of Fact, Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016
Protuberances, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
Seduction of the Cyborg, Human Resources Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
home LA, Los Angeles, CA
A Space Remembered, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
2015
Crank, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
One After Another, In Succession, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Fade In/Fade Out, 356 Broadway, Los Angeles, CA
60 Americans, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY Photo LA, L.A. Mart, Los Angeles, CA
RESIDENCIES + AWARDS + ACQUISITIONS
2023
Flaherty Film Seminar: Queer World Mending
Hellman Fellowship
Amherst College Artist-in-Residence, Amherst, MA 2022
LMCC Arts Center Residency, Governor’s Island, NY
2022
AiR 351 Artist Residency, Cascais, Portugal Russell Grant Powers Fund Grant
2021
TBA-21 Academy Ocean Space Fellowship, Venice Italy Powers Fund Grant
2020
The Rebel Body, Short Film Award, Swiss International Film Festival, Aubonne, Switzerland
Field Workshop - Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Los Angeles, CA
In collaboration with EJ Hill, Na Mira and Kandis Williams
2019
Acquisition: The Rebel Body acquired by California Institute of the Arts Millay Colony Artist Residency, Austerlitz, NY
2018
Shandaken/ Storm King Art Center Residency, New Windsor, NY Casa Lu Artist Residency, Mexico City, Mexico
2017
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant Award
Acquisition: Magic Hour, Oakland Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection
2014
Summer Forum: Geographies, Citizenries, and the Masses, Joshua Tree, CA
2013
Arteles Artist Residency, Haukijärvi Finland
2012
DAAD Grant Recipient
ARTIST TALKS
2023
Artist Talk, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA Artist Talk, Hallswalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
2022
Artist Talk, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Beyond All Measures: The Sea, the Sky, the Horizon of Our Transitional Present, Fulcrum Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Without Sun, Amherst College Artist Talk Series, Amherst, MA
2021
Future Plastic Archive, TBA-21 Academy Ocean Uni, Venice Italy
Breathing Together, TBA-21 Academy Ocean Space, Venice, Italy
Oakley Center Salon with Alena Williams and Brittany Meché, Williamstown, MA
Resisting Now: Art and Policy Talk at LAMAG, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Talk, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA
Artist Talk, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Artist Talk, University California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
2019
Artist Talk, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Artist Talk, Cypress College, Cypress, CA
2017
SSU’s Queer Lecture Series, Sonoma State, Sonoma, CA
2016
Artist Lecture Series UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
Just Speak Nearby: The Politics & Practices of Art Writing, 356 Mission Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Lecture at land’s edge, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles, CA
2015
California Institute of the Arts Walt Disney Family Museum, San Francisco, CA
Artist Talk: Tir Talk (Epitaph for Family), Human Resources Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Talk: Analog Dissident, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Lecture Series Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
KChung Radio, Los Angeles, CA
PRESS/PUBLICATIONS
2023
Belly of a Glacier exhibition catalogue with texts by Jess Arndt, Cleo Woelfle-Hazard, Svetlana Kitto, Astrida Neimanis, Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen, Cauleen Smith, Susan Stryker, Jeanne Vaccaro and Alena Williams. The catalogue is designed by Nicole Killian (upcoming)
BOMB, “Ohan Breiding interviewed by Katie Brewer Ball,” Katie Brewer Ball
2022
Hyperallergic, “Your Concise New York Art Guide for December 2022,” Billy Anania
Soft Lightning Volume 3: Rural Queerness
Art in America, “Reading Material: Books Shaping Artists’ Practices Now,”Ficus Interfaith, jina valentine, Steffani Jemison, Bang Geul Han, Camilo Godoy, Elizabeth Atterbury, Rayyane Tabet, Joseph Buckley, Jamal Cyrus
Vassar Review Publication Sequencing: Fulcrum Arts: Souvenir
AQNB, “Loss Across Landscapes: Sonya Merutka writes on the queer kinship & histories that remain in I tilted over until it becomes horizon,” Sonya Merutka
Artillery, “Ten More to Remember,” Ezrha Jean Black Queer Aesthetics Art Journal/ Publication
Blue Journal, “The Fouling,” Shoghig Halajian
2021
Artforum, “Lagoon Squad,” Lia Capelli
Common Practice Basketball, edited by Carlos Rolón and Dan Peterson
And Series: Postcards for John, in collaboration with Shoghig Halajian
SRLP KCRW Events, “Ohan Breiding at Ochi Projects,” Lindsay Preston Zappas
LA Weekly, “Pictures at Exhibitions,” Shana Nys Dambrot
Artillery, “Ohan Breiding at Ochi Projects,” Ezrha Jean Black
Arte Realizzata, “An Impassioned Conversation with Ohan Breiding,” Uzomah Ugwu
Curate LA, “Summer Fugue,” Shelley Holcomb
LA Weekly, “Art Pick: ARCHIVE MACHINES,” Shana Nys Dambrot Hyperallergic, “An Alternate History of US Monuments and History,” Abe Ahn The Eastsider, “ARCHIVE MACHINES,” Emma Haber
2019
Curate LA, “Ohan Breiding and Shoghig Halajian: The Rebel Body,” Shelley Holcomb
2018
Artforum, “Ohan Breiding at Angels Gate Cultural Center,” Meg Whiteford
Hyperallergic, “Expanding Definitions of Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality,” Abe Ahn
2017
Hyperallergic, “The Contemporary Oddities of the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive,” Michael Valinsky
Whitewall, “Rema Hort Mann Foundation Awards 2017 Emerging Art Grantees,” Eliza Jordan
Hyperallergic, “Best of 2017: Our Top 10 Los Angeles Art Shows,” HNK
2016
Artforum, “Critics’ Picks: Protuberances,” Andy Campbell
Hyperallergic, “Overlooking the Port of LA, an Exhibit Considers Sustainability,” R. Gutiérrez
Huffington Post, “Minutes Away from the Port of Los Angeles, Artists Conjure Utopian Visions of Labor,” Priscilla Frank
2015
Art in America, “Best of Los Angeles, 2015,” Lanka Tattersall
Temporary Art Review, “Epitaph for Family,” Gelare Khoshgozaran
Notes on Looking, “Andrea,” David Bell
2014
Recaps Magazine, “Rethink Environment,” Claudia Borgna
Artforum, “Art Guide,” Anne Guro Larsman
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023-2024
Amherst College, Artist-in-Residence
2019-2022 (currently on sabbatical until Fall 2024) Williams College, Assistant Professor of Artt
2017-2018
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Visiting Faculty
2014-2016
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), Visiting Faculty